www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/09/02/frances-perkins-labor-secretary-profile-part-1
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura — The Public Domain Review
Posted: July 31, 2025 in My Weekly Reader, UncategorizedTags: from Public Domain Review
Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced.
— Read on publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-modern-camera-obscura/
sometimes it is true
Posted: January 20, 2025 in PIC o' the Crop, Selected Photography Over the Years, Uncategorizeda picture is worth a thousand words
The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels.
— Read on www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/playing-fire/
very apt treatment of a controversial issue
A great Lewis Hyde Essay
Posted: September 24, 2023 in My Weekly Reader, Observations of Nature, Readings, UncategorizedFound this old photo while digging for a few to post.
Posted: September 16, 2023 in Selected Photography Over the Years
And there it is….at the time I was taking this photo, it seemed “timely” as I just didn’t have a sense of balance and needed reminding that Happiness lies between More Than You Need and Needing More Than You Have
So last week I played segments of this very rare CD (10 of 30) on my radio show….I guess someone really wanted it…it was stolen from my home in less than 2 days….some people just aren’t “people”
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